Michael Avery, Professor of Avery's Law at Suffolk University
"Excessive patriotic zeal is a hallmark of national security states. It permits, indeed encourages, excesses in the name of national security, as we saw during the Bush administration, and which continue during the Obama administration,"
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/14/massachusetts-law-professor-calls-care-packages-for-us-troops-shameful/#ixzz1diNv3Z3j
Professor Michael Avery of the Suffolk University Law School takes exception to a campus program that sends Care packages to our troops overseas. He also objects to hanging the US flag.
Of course, here are the pusillanimous comments of the university administrators.
Suffolk University president and provost Barry Brown issued a statement saying the school supported the "free exchange of ideas and robust debate" and respected the "right of our faculty members to exercise academic freedom."
But, Brown said, "As a diverse community, no one opinion or perspective is representative of the views of the whole community."
"While I personally intend to donate a care package for our troops, I respect the right of others to hold a differing perspective," added Camille Nelson, dean of the university's law school. "Suffolk Law, while valuing debate on U.S. military policy, has a well-deserved reputation for supporting armed services personnel in the pursuit of their J.D. degrees and career goals."
Here's Fousesquawk's comment:
Professor Avery is a jerk.
5 comments:
Ah, yes, the familiar refrain,"right of our faculty members to exercise academic freedom."
The only thing not protected by this right is the right to practice sodomy. Anything and everything else is permissible to criticize but this.
Miggie,
Don't forget Penn State.
Jerk is too nice of a word to use.
As I understand the Penn State story, it was academia that defended him or looked the other way all these years.
Well, yeah, it is fundamental to freedom of speech that this dopey professor has a right to say what he says, without being arrested, jailed, lynched, having his home vandalized, or even (gasp!) losing his job, and, everyone else, while respecting the First Amendment, has every right to go ahead and donate to the care packages. How else would you have it?
I'll say one thing, this wacko is no Leninist revolutionary. If he was, he would realize that the army the Czar sent to fight Germany was the core of the Bolshevik Revolution. I bet Lenin arranged for a lot of care packages to be sent to the troops -- without going through official government channels of course.
P.S. Penn State? It appears that the loudest and largest band of students at Penn State don't know academics any better than community studies majors at UC Santa Cruz. They are running of hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer-guaranteed student loans for a front seat at four years of football games. It wasn't academia that protected Sandusky, it was the sports program. There is a distinction.
Post a Comment